editorials7-2 Australian Journal of Educational Technology Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 1991. ISSN 0814-673X Contents Editorial ................................................................................................................ ii When performance and instructional technologists talk: Dialogue about impact, change and personal growth .......................... 71-80 Allison Rossett Information systems in education: An interactive model for projecting primary school enrolments ................................................... 81-92 E. Gould and P. Casperson Evaluation and the development of quality learning materials .......... 93-116 Fons Nouwens and Peter Robinson Informing managers about telecommunications technologies for education and training ................................................................... 117-126 Peter Hosie, Terry Charman and Roger Atkinson A methodological review of studies of SALT (Suggestive-accelerative learning and teaching) techniques ............. 127-143 B. Dipamo and R. F. S. Job Examination of the effects of subject anxiety and task difficulty on the outcome of SALT (Suggestive-accelerative learning and teaching) techniques ..................................................................... 144-152 R. F. S. Job and B. Dipamo Instructional typographies using desktop publishing techniques to produce effective learning and training materials .......................... 153-163 Wendy Priestly Review of Curriculum decision making in TAFE, 2nd Edition ............. 164-165 Kerry J. Kennedy Conference Notices ..................................................................................... 166 Editorial Contributions to this issue include Allison Rossett's keynote address to the NSPI-organised stream of the state AITD conference. Her contribution to the literature highlights the important aspect of analysis in the development of performance technology. She has also highlighted the search for an appropriate strategy which may or may not include training. Other contributors in this issue have highlighted the importance of other aspects of the design process. Fons Nouwens and Peter Robinson have provided a considered review of what makes quality distance learning materials. Their review provides a useful set of criteria against which materials might be judged. Other contributors to this issue include Wendy Priestly who also presented at the AITD July conference this year, and Peter Hosie, Terry Charman and Roger Atkinson talk about the use of telecommunications and the delivery of training. This time we also correct an error which occurred in an earlier volume of AJET (volume 6, number l) when we published an incorrect version of Job's and Dipamo's papers on accelerated learning. With the inclusion of the two papers in this issue we hope we have correctly allocated the references and research results to the appropriate papers. The next issue is already in train and we hope to include some material on the new technologies being offered to instructional designers by the hardware manufacturers. John Hedberg EDITOR Editorial Advisory Panel Peter Bartos, Overseas Telecommunications Corporation, Sydney Rayden Dunbar, Charles Sturt University-Mitchell, Bathurst Marguerite Foxon, Florida State University, Tallahassee Andrew Greig, University of Sydney, Sydney Barry Harper, University of Wollongong, Wollongong Colin Latchem, Curtin University of Technology, Perth Sue McNamara, Monash University, Clayton John Mitchell, Institute of Education, University of Melbourne, Parkville [Inside front cover] Australian Journal of Educational Technology is published twice a year Editorial Board: John Hedberg, Sue McNamara, James Steele The Australian Journal of Educational Technology welcomes original contributions from members of the Australian Society for Educational Technology, NSPI and others. Short features (up to 1000 words) and articles (up to 5000 words) should be typed, on one side of the paper only, and double spaced. 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Major speakers include - Paulo Freire Edward de Bono Richard Saul Wurman Valerie Walkerdine Paul Feyerabend Warren Bennis Paul Davies Dale Spender Gavriel Salomon Robyn Williams Oodgeroo (Kath Walker) ]ohn Tiffin Pre-conference workshops (5 July) include Gavriel Salomon on The computer as lever for the redesign of learning environments Contact: Conference Convener, 5th International Conference on Thinking, Department of Pedagogics, James Cook University, Q Australia 4811 Tel: (077) 8l 4633 Fax: (077) 25 1690 e-mail: edcot@marlin.jcu.edu.au Earlybird registration ends 29.2.92 3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY & TEACHER EDUCATION STATE OF THE ART 12-15 March 1992 Marriott Hotel by the Galleria - Houston, Texas The Third Annual Conference on Technology and Teacher Education is the annual meeting of the Society for Technology and Teacher Education (STATE), a division of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). 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